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Apr 19, 2024
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ESL 024 Low Beginning ESL Integrated - 2 (1 to 15 credits)
Prerequisite CASAS Appraisal Exam, CASAS score of 181-190, and instructor permission
Course Description
A low beginning level ESL course (integrating speaking, listening, reading, writing, and technology) for those who have mastered basic literacy and survival English, and who are read to further develop their communication skills in order to enhance their personal, social, and workplace environments.
Student Outcomes
1.Reading
R 2.1 Decode and recognize familiar every day, simple words in short, simple text by breaking words into parts, tapping out/sounding out syllables, applying pronunciation rules, using picture aids, and recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
R 2.2 Demonstrate familiarity with words, phrases, and simple sentences.
R 2.3 Locate discrete items of information in simplified text.
R 2.4 Monitor accuracy of decoding simple sentences using various strategies such as rereading, copying, or making word lists.
R 2.5 Recall prior knowledge to understand information in simple texts.
2.Writing
W 2.1 Determine the purpose and audience for communicating in writing.
W 2.2 Follow a highly structured plan to organize ideas around a single familiar topic.
W 2.3 Appropriately use everyday, familiar vocabulary (such as words with personal significance and commonly-used adjectives, pronouns and prepositions) and simple sentence structures to produce a few sentences on a topic.
W 2.4 Make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation based on review and feedback from others.
3.Speaking
S 2.1 Recall and use a limited set of learned words, phrases, and short sentences related to basic personal information, basic objects, and a limited number of activities and immediate needs in familiar, predictable, and straightforward communication tasks.
S 2.2 Use simple strategies (such as familiar phrases and questions responding to simple, direct questions and, combining or re-combining learned or heard words and phrases) to select and relay information.
S 2.3 Apply simple strategies (such as gestures, eye contact, and simple, repeated requests for feedback from listener) to monitor effectiveness of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
4.Listening
L 2.1 Understand and respond to learned words and phrases in simple questions, statements, and high frequency commands as part of short conversations, explanations, instructions, and narratives where the linguistic complexity is simplified.
L 2.2 Use a few simple formulas to convey understanding, and ask for repetition or clarification and one or two simple strategies for gathering missing information and/or repairing problems in communication.
L 2.3 Use non-verbal and visual clues, as well as socio-cultural, linguistic, and other background knowledge to understand the basic intent of the speaker and to meet the purpose of the communication.
5.Goals
G 2.1 Set educational goals as they relate to their roles as workers, citizens, and family members report progress on these goals and revise and update them quarterly.
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